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JULY 2014 | VOLUME 15 | NUMBER 7
CATCHING
UP WITH
KIM
CATTRALL,
PAGE 30
HAIL
CAESAR
AN INTERVIEW
WITH THE
GREAT APE’S
ALTER EGO
ANDY Inside
ETHAN
SERKIS
HAWKE
MILA
KUNIS
PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 41619533
ALL DRESSED UP: LUPITA NYONG’O, JENNIFER LAWRENCE, ELLE FANNING, PAGE 16

CONTENTS
JULY 2014 | VOL 15 | Nº7
COVER
STORY
36 SERKIS ACT
Although a trained thespian,
Andy Serkis is better known
for his stellar motion-capture
performances (Gollum,
King Kong) that marry art and
technology. The British-born
actor returns as simian leader
Caesar in this month’s sequel
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,
and says we can expect an
older, wiser and even more
complicated Caesar this time
BY BOB STRAUSS
REGULARS
6 EDITOR’S NOTE
8 SNAPS
10 IN BRIEF
14 SPOTLIGHT
16 ALL DRESSED UP
18 IN THEATRES
42 CASTING CALL
44 RETURN ENGAGEMENT
46 AT HOME
50 FINALLY…
FEATURES
24 MUSIC MAN 26 ONE WOMAN 30 ACTING HER AGE 32 TIME PIECE
How director John Carney TO RULE US ALL Canadian actor Kim Cattrall Boyhood’s director
came to cast musician/TV She’s gorgeous, funny, and in on her career, a future Richard Linklater and star
personality Adam Levine next year’s Jupiter Ascending, Sex and the City movie, and Ethan Hawke on spending
in his musical dramedy Mila Kunis discovers she’s the giving voice to her age group 12 years making a movie
Begin Again rightful ruler of Earth on TV’s Sensitive Skin about one boy’s journey
BY MARNI WEISZ BY INGRID RANDOJA BY MARNI WEISZ BY BOB STRAUSS
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SNAPS
HAMM
IT UP
Jon Hamm takes an
uncomfortable selfie
with his wax double
at Madame Tussauds
New York.
PHOTO BY CINDY ORD/GETTY
PITT’S PASS
BATCH
Brad Pitt throws a can of beer from
the balcony of his New Orleans OF BLOOMS
home to the balcony of the house
Matthew McConaughey is renting Benedict Cumberbatch takes
while in town. McConaughey did his mom Wanda Ventham to the
catch, and drink, that beer. Chelsea Flower Show in London.
PHOTO BY RAY TAMARRA/GETTY PHOTO BY YUI MOK/KEYSTONE PRESS
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HUGH PREPS
MERRY BERRY
FOR PAN
A happy Halle Berry waves
to the L.A. crowd during
Hugh Jackman practices his
Revlon’s Run/Walk for Women. She
sword skills in a Manhattan
and Bruce Willis served as hosts.
park in anticipation of playing
PHOTO BY RAY TAMARRA/GETTY Blackbeard in the Peter Pan
adaptation Pan.
PHOTO BY KEYSTONE PRESS
BEN AT WORK
Ben Affleck fuels up his vintage
Chevelle in Los Angeles.
PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS
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IN BRIEF
Joseph
Hoffman wasn’t flawless. Gordon-Levitt
“Initially there was some
unease between us on the set On
of A Most Wanted Man, which I
attribute to my inexperience as Home
a director and in not verbalizing
my needs from actors in a Turf
way they are used to,” wrote
Corbijn. “But, gradually, Phil THE WALK
and I got to a place where
the movie started to flow
naturally and he didn’t need Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in
much direction anymore; he Montreal shooting
totally became the character of The Walk (a.k.a. To Reach
Günther Bachmann.” the Clouds) this month.
Corbijn was most amazed And if the filmmakers go
with the way Hoffman lost for historical accuracy, he’ll
himself in the role. look a bit different than
CORBIJN ON
“When Phil and I watched you’re used to.
the film together in its early Gordon-Levitt plays
HOFFMAN stages I could not believe that Philippe Petit, a redheaded
the guy sitting next to me was French high-wire artist,
the same person as the one in the 3D drama. In 1974,
on screen. The belief in the Petit famously walked a
reality of his character was tightrope strung between
t’ll be a while before the way we knew him best — total. Despite any issues he New York City’s World
we see the last of with a starring role in a was dealing with outside of the Trade Center towers —
Philip Seymour Hoffman small, thinky film. He plays film, domestic or otherwise, the without permission. You
on the big screen. German intelligence operative performance never suffered.” may remember him as the
The Hunger Games: Günther Bachmann in director On a more personal note, subject of the 2008 Oscar-
Mockingjay – Part 2, the Anton Corbijn’s thriller Corbijn summed up the man winning documentary
final film from the actor who A Most Wanted Man, based on he came to know as follows, Man on Wire.
died of a heroin overdose six the John le Carré novel. “He was 200 percent human, Robert Zemeckis
months ago, hits theatres in In a director’s statement with all the struggles and flaws (Flight) directs the film,
November 2015. first published in The Guardian that come with this — and that and Ben Kingsley joins
But this month we see newspaper, Corbijn admitted is where that great art came the cast in a yet-to-be-
Hoffman for the last time in that his relationship with from, I like to think.” —MW revealed role. —MW
THE ART OF FILM
By day, Meghan Stratman is the graphic designer
for an art-house cinema in Lincoln, Nebraska. By
night, she creates delightful works made up of
layered paper, mat board and paint — many of
which are based on movies, like these ones inspired
by (from left to right) Hugo, Jaws and Annie Hall.
“I tend to focus on favourite characters or
characters/elements that are interesting visually,”
she says. “My pop-culture pieces tend to appeal to
film buffs and people with my nerdy sensibilities,
while my original pieces seem to most often appeal
to parents buying art for their kids.” See more at
bunnypirates.carbonmade.com. —MW
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